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Thursday, 25 June 2015

MU will reserve 1% seats for third gender - Mangalore

The University Grants Commission (UGC) and the state government have thrown open the portals of higher education
to students in a whole lot of new categories. While the directive to
reserve 3% of available seats for physically challenged students came
first in 2001, the state government acting on a Supreme Court directive
dated April 15, 2014, directed universities in Karnataka to set aside
1% of available seats for students of the 'third gender'.

The
government followed this with another directive reserving 8% of seats
for students of Hyderabad-Karnatak region in 2014. In its latest order
dated May 21, 2015, it has directed universities to set aside 15% extra
seats for other university candidates. UGC on its part too has directed
state universities to set aside one seat for wards of Kashmiri migrants.
All this is contained in regulations governing admission to PG
degree/diploma courses of Mangalore University.

Going a step
further, the university at the meeting of its academic council on
Thursday last ratified a decision of the Syndicate to reserve one seat
each for candidates involved in NCC, NSS, sports, scouts (rovers and
rangers) and cultural activities. The university will prescribe the
eligibility criteria for these seats from time to time. The council has
also decided to set aside one seat for the children of Mangalore
University staff according to the merit of these students.

In addition, there shall be one seat each reserved for students of Jammu
and Kashmiri migrants as well as for a student from North-Eastern
states. The council also ratified a decision to set aside 1% of the
total intake for third gender students. The decision to reserve a seat
for the NE states students was based on an idea mooted by P B Acharya,
governor of Nagaland.

These additional seats will also be
available in the constituent colleges of the university, namely
University College in Mangaluru, and FMKMC College in Madikeri and the
PG Centre at Chikkaluvara. The physically handicapped student quota,
however, is not applicable for BPEd and MPEd degree programmes offered
by the university, which has also done away with the provision of
reserving a seat for students recommended by state/central government.

Vice-chancellor K Byrappa said the first priority will be for students
from colleges affiliated to and the constituent colleges of the
university. The seats include those in the general category and
self-financing category, he said, adding if there are no takers from
local students for reserved seats, the university will then make it
available for students from other state universities and then for
students from other states in that particular order.